Maxine Gordon built an accomplished career as a tour manager for renowned jazz musicians, including Gil Evans and her late husband, the bebop tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon. She has now turned her talents to archiving and […]
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Think for a moment of the top American jazz musicians. Whose names spring to mind? Is it Louis Armstrong … or Miles Davis? Dizzy Gillespie? In this thought experiment, it would be highly unusual for the […]
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An interview with Kevin Young, Cave Canem poet and the new director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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In our ongoing video series on our neighbors in Pittsburgh’s Northside, Sampsonia Way sat down with legendary jazz drummer Roger Humphries.
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The third installment of Reading of the World series features a reading by Poet Laureate of South Africa (2006), Keorapetse Kgositsile, accompanied by saxophonist and composer Oliver Lake.
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Poems from acclaimed poet and Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady: “Don’t Bum Out The Musicians,” “Toi,” and “My Niece Marie Explains Her Michael Jackson Project.” Also included, an audio clip of Eady reading “Coltrane’s House”.
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The jazz trio discusses the meaning behind the name Tarbaby, how they ended up working with Oliver Lake, and their thoughts on performance, while mentioning a veritable catalog of influential jazz musicians, plus their favorite musicians from Pittsburgh.
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